天下的治乱不在于一个王朝的兴亡，而在于百姓的忧乐。

Keep your head up, God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

写作就是重写。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.